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The woman was actually not dead, but she died a few days later. The baby boy was none the worse for his night out, and drank off a gourd of milk "like a man." Gordon gave him to a family to look after, paying for him daily with some maize. Mosquitoes and other insects were a pest wherever he went, but at Saubat he had the extra pest of rats.
It was another Gordon that the slavers knew a man terrible in his anger. Having taken from the ruffianly Arabs who had so cruelly treated the little children, their slaves, their stolen cattle, and their ivory, he would have them stripped and flogged, and driven naked into the desert. For two months he was at Saubat River, a lonely and desolate country, the prey of slavers.
Bahr el Abiad. R. Behor, Rupp. Amhar. Behor. Abissinie centrale, Kordofan. R. Kull, nov. spec. Djenke, Koul. Bahr el Abiad. R. leucotis, Peters et Licht. Djenke, Adjel. Bahr el Abiad, Saubat. R. Wuil, nov. spec. Djenke, Ouil. Bahr el Abiad, Saubat. R. Lechee,* Gray. Bahr el Abiad. R. megcerosa,* Heuglin. Kobus Maria, Gray. Djenke, Abok, Saubat, Bahr el Abiad et Bahr Ghazal. R. Defassa,* Rupp.
It was so dull and dreary a place, that the Arab soldiers were sent there for a punishment, as the Russians are sent to Siberia. But Gordon was too busy to be dull. He was always so full of thought for others, that he never had time to be sorry for himself. "I am sure it is the secret of true happiness to be content with what we actually have," he wrote from Saubat.
The first of these forts or stations he established at the entrance of the Saubat river, and while there he made a discovery which showed how the slave-trade flourished with such impunity. He seized some letters from a slave-dealer to the Egyptian commander at Fashoda, stating that he was bringing him the slaves he wanted for himself and many others, besides 2000 cows.
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